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Start with A Hard Ticket Home and continue through all 20 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 1 by David Housewright • Published 2004
Ex St. Paul cop Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie agrees to help a friend whose nine year old daughter needs a bone marrow transplant from the sister who ran away years ago. His search for the missing girl drags him through the...
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Book 1:A Hard Ticket Home
David Housewright • 2004
Ex St. Paul cop Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie agrees to help a friend whose nine year old daughter needs a bone marrow transplant from the sister who ran away years ago. His search for the missing girl drags him through the...
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Book 2:Tin City
David Housewright • 2005
A favor for his father's old Marine buddy sends Mac McKenzie to a honey farm where the bees are mysteriously dying. After the beekeeper is executed and a threatening neighbor vanishes, Mac goes underground, dodging fe...
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Book 3:Pretty Girl Gone
David Housewright • 2006
Mac's old flame is now Minnesota's first lady, and she fears an anonymous email accusing the governor of murder will destroy his career. Digging into a decades old death in a small hometown, Mac stirs up jealousies, s...
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Book 4:Dead Boyfriends
David Housewright • 2007
After Mac stops a rookie cop from roughing up Merodie Davies at a grisly crime scene, he lands in jail and then on her defense team. Investigating the death of her lover, he discovers a disturbing pattern of dead boyf...
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Book 5:Madman on a Drum
David Housewright • 2008
When homicide chief Bobby Dunston's young daughter is kidnapped, the abductors demand ransom money from his friend Mac McKenzie. The girl comes home, but a childhood buddy is murdered and a contract is placed on Mac,...
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Book 6:Jelly's Gold
David Housewright • 2009
Graduate students bring Mac a legend about gangster Frank “Jelly” Nash and millions in stolen gold hidden somewhere in St. Paul. The treasure hunt quickly turns violent, and Mac must outmaneuver thugs, collectors and...
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Book 7:The Taking of Libbie, SD
David Housewright • 2010
Abducted by angry residents of a South Dakota town, Mac learns a con man used his name to steal their savings with a fake development scheme. To clear himself, he agrees to find the impostor, exposing small town grudg...
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Book 8:Highway 61
David Housewright • 2011
At Nina Truhler's request, Mac looks into her ex husband Jason, who claims he woke up beside a murdered woman after a blues festival road trip. The deeper Mac digs into the supposed one night stand, the more he uncove...
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Book 9:Curse of the Jade Lily
David Housewright • 2012
An insurance company asks Mac to act as go between after a priceless jade artifact is stolen from a Minneapolis museum and offered back for ransom. The so called cursed Lily attracts spies, thieves and federal agents,...
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Book 10:The Last Kind Word
David Housewright • 2013
Mac agrees to go undercover for the ATF, infiltrating a small crew of rural robbers to find a cache of stolen guns near the Canadian border. Playing the part of a career criminal, he walks a razor thin line between th...
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Book 11:The Devil May Care
David Housewright • 2014
Riley Brodin, granddaughter of a wealthy Minneapolis power broker, calls Mac when her new boyfriend vanishes, leaving behind a rented mansion and a life built on lies. Following the trail of Juan Carlos Navarre puts M...
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Book 12:Unidentified Woman #15
David Housewright • 2015
During a winter storm, Mac watches a truck dump a bound woman onto a Twin Cities freeway, triggering a massive pileup but sparing her life. With the victim suffering total amnesia, he shelters her and hunts for her id...
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Book 13:Stealing the Countess
David Housewright • 2016
Violinist Paul Duclos begs Mac to help ransom his stolen Stradivarius, the Countess Borromeo, even if it means paying thieves under the table. As Mac pursues the missing instrument, he clashes with local police, insur...
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Book 14:What the Dead Leave Behind
David Housewright • 2017
At his stepdaughter Erica's request, Mac looks into the unsolved stabbing of her friend's father, killed in a suburban park a year earlier. His questions link that cold case to another suspicious death and a tight gro...
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Book 15:Like to Die
David Housewright • 2018
A simple favor for a hockey buddy introduces Mac to Erin Peterson, driven owner of the Salsa Girl food company, whose factory locks are being sabotaged with glue. As the harassment escalates to threats against her bus...
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Book 16:Dead Man's Mistress
David Housewright • 2019
Once notorious as the young muse in a famous painter's erotic canvases, Louise Wykoff asks Mac to track a cache of Randolph McInnis paintings stolen from her barn. Following the missing art north toward Lake Superior,...
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Book 17:From the Grave
Kresley Cole • 2023
In the final Arcana Chronicles novel, Evie must confront the source of the game itself and decide whether to accept, subvert, or destroy the role she was born to play. With old enemies returning and sacrifices mountin...
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Book 18:What Doesn't Kill Us
David Housewright • 2021 • 4 recommendations
Moments after leaving a neighborhood bar, Mac is shot in the back and left in a coma. While he hovers between life and death, friends, cops and former foes retrace his last case involving a wealthy tech family, drug d...
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Book 19:Something Wicked
David Housewright • 2022
Trying to honor Nina's request that he retire, Mac still agrees to look into Jenness Crawford's suspicion that someone murdered her grandmother in a family owned castle resort. Trapped with feuding heirs, long serving...
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Book 20:In a Hard Wind
David Housewright • 2023
Jeanette Carrell stands accused of murdering a developer who allegedly tricked her elderly friend with dementia into signing away pristine land, and every scrap of evidence points her way. Convinced there is more to t...
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What is the best order to read the Mac Mckenzie series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with A Hard Ticket Home.
How many books are in the Mac Mckenzie series?
There are 20 books currently listed in the Mac Mckenzie series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Mac Mckenzie series?
New readers should start with A Hard Ticket Home, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Mac Mckenzie series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2004 to 2023.